“In retrospect I probably would have done things a little differently,” Trump Jr. told Hannity. “Again this is before the Russia mania; this is before they were building this up in the press. For me this was opposition research, they had something, you know, maybe concrete evidence to all the stories I’d been hearing about, probably under-reported for years, not just during the campaign, so I think I wanted to hear it out. But, really, it went nowhere and it was apparent that wasn’t what the meeting was about.”

Donald Trump Jr., left, is interviewed by host Sean Hannity on his Fox News Channel television program, in New York Tuesday, July 11, 2017. (Photo: Richard Drew/AP)

“I’ve probably met with other people from Russia but certainly not in the context of actual formalized meetings or anything,” Trump Jr. said when asked if he had ever had other undisclosed meetings with Russians. He also added that in June 2016 he was “still way in a learning curve on all of this” and confirmed that he was still willing to testify about his dealings with Russia under oath.

Hannity asked Trump Jr. if he was surprised by the fact the email mentioned “Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump,” and Trump Jr. said it didn’t set off any particular alarms and he set up the meeting so as to hear them out. The subject line of the e-mail read “Russia-Clinton-Private and Confidential” and was forwarded to Trump’s then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort and top adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Hannity did not ask why Trump Jr., Manafort and Kushner all attended a meeting with an unnamed lawyer. Kushner, now a top White House counselor, neglected to disclose a series of meetings with Russian representatives when applying for his security clearance.

“I imagine I did,” said Trump Jr. when asked if he pressed for information.

Trump Jr. also said that he did not tell his father about the meeting because it did not rise to that level of importance.

“It was just a nothing,” Trump Jr. said. “There was nothing to tell. I mean, I wouldn’t have even remembered it until you started scouring through this stuff. It was literally just a wasted 20 minutes, which was a shame.”

Hannity opened his show by saying he planned to show journalists the scandals they should be covering. The Fox News and talk radio host has spent much of his programming focusing on how other outlets are covering the Trump presidency. Hannity has also promoted right-wing conspiracy theories surrounding last summer’s murder of Democratic National Committee employee Seth Rich, to the point Rich’s family asked him to stop after Fox News retracted a report on the death.